Physics

Researchers from IPGP and GFZ have validated a single-seismometer technique that detects nanometer-scale ground signals hours before eruptions, and plan to deploy it on Mount Etna in 2026 through the POS4dyke project.

Rice University physicists built magnetoARPES, a new instrument that revealed the first direct momentum-space evidence of time-reversal symmetry breaking in the kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5, confirming theoretically predicted loop current orders.

Researchers combine amplitude, phase, and polarization in a single holographic data page, using a neural network to decode all three channels from intensity-only measurements.

A University of Bath researcher used the Lean 4 theorem prover to formalize a 2006 particle physics paper and discovered its central stability theorem is false, marking the first time formal verification has uncovered a substantive error in published physics research.

Back-to-back results at Moriond 2026 confirm the most massive bound state ever observed and resolve a two-decade search for the doubly charmed baryon.

The BASE experiment at CERN successfully moved 92 antiprotons in a portable cryogenic trap across the laboratory's campus, demonstrating that antimatter can survive road transport and paving the way for precision measurements at facilities across Europe.

Researchers at CSIRO, the University of Melbourne, and RMIT have built and tested a quantum battery prototype that completed a full charge-store-discharge cycle for the first time, demonstrating a counterintuitive property where charging speed increases with battery size.

A Kyoto University team applied three types of shear strain to ultra-thin crystals of the unconventional superconductor Sr2RuO4 and found virtually no change in its transition temperature, ruling out several leading theoretical models and opening new questions about the material's pairing symmetry.

MIT physicists built the first terahertz near-field microscope and used it to directly image quantum oscillations of superconducting electrons in BSCCO, a result published in Nature.

Researchers use pressure quenching to lock in a record superconducting transition temperature of 151 K at ambient pressure, surpassing a 33-year-old record.

The CMS Collaboration at CERN has detected wakes left by quarks speeding through quark-gluon plasma, providing the first direct evidence that the matter filling the universe in its first microseconds behaved as a nearly perfect liquid rather than a gas of free particles.

ETH Zurich and University of Basel researchers permanently reversed a ferromagnet's polarity using only laser light in twisted bilayer molybdenum ditelluride, published in Nature.